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(No Model.) E. BURKE.

MEANS FOR CONVERTING MOTION.

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Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

A WITNESSES: dud/ EDWARD BURKE, OF LEMARS, IOWA,

PA ENT OFFICE.

ASSIGNOR TO THE GATEWAY MANU- FACTURIN G COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MEANS FOR CONVERTING MOTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,492, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed November 15, 1886. Serial No. 218,933. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD BURKE, of Lemars, in the county of Plymouth and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Im- 5 movement in Means for Converting Motion,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for convert ing motion; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts for 10 converting a reciprocating motion into a rotary one, or a rotary into a reciprocating movtio n,\rvhich I will now proceed to describe with reference to the drawing, in which the figure represents a side elevation of the in- 15 vention.

A represents a steam-cylinder, whose piston-rod B moves in a straightline without the use of the ordinary guides. At its outer end it is connected to a crank-pin, (1-, on a crank,

20 C, rigidly attached to gear-wheel E. This wheel E is hung upon the crank-pin ll 'of the crank D. This crank D is rigidly connected to the shaft G, which turns in suitable bearings and carries the fly-wheel H.

The gear-wheel E always meshes with the inwardly-projecting teeth of the stationary circular gear F, which is held by standards I in stationary concentric relation to main shaft.

G. The number of teeth in the stationary gear F isjustdouhle the number of teeth in the small gear E. Now, as the piston B and crank-pin a reciprocate in a straight line, power is transmitted through crank C to crank D, and the gear-wheel E, traversing the internal gear, F, guides the crank-pin I) around in a circle.

As shown, my invention is designed loco!!- vert reciprocating motion int-o rotary motion; but the same mechanism may be employed for converting a rotary motion into a reciprocating one.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The means for converting motion herein described, consisting of a reelilincarly-recip-. rocating rod, B, a shaft, G, with rigid crank I),asn1all traveling gear-wheel mounted upon the outer end of said crank and having a crank connecting with the rectilinearly-moving rod, and a stationary concentric gearcounected with the traveling gear-wheel, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EDWARD BURKE.

Witnesses PATRICK FARRELL, P. w. onmEN. 

